What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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One doesn’t need to know the artist’s private intentions. The work tells all.
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Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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It hurts to love. It’s like giving yourself to be flayed and knowing that at any moment the other person may just walk off with your skin.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Photographers are always imposing.
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In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life.
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To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time.
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If tragedy is an experience of hyperinvolvement, comedy is an experience of underinvolvement, of detachment.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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